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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the fundamental understanding of protein folding and design, including theoretical insights into the selection of protein structures

Overview

Ned S. Wingreen is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial body of work in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Endocrinology, and Sociology and Political Science as subfields.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including RNA Research and Splicing, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacterial Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, Protein Structure and Dynamics, and RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms.

Frequent collaborators of Wingreen include Yaojun Zhang, Chenyi Fei, Yigal Meir, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Howard A. Stone, reflecting productive partnerships across multiple studies.

Published work spans various prominent scientific venues. Wingreen has 43 publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 11 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 9 in Biophysical Journal, 7 in eLife, and 5 in PRX Life.

Their recent papers include:

  • Chromatin mechanics dictates subdiffusion and coarsening dynamics of embedded condensates, 2021, Nature Physics
  • Cell position fates and collective fountain flow in bacterial biofilms revealed by light-sheet microscopy, 2020, Science
  • Nonuniform growth and surface friction determine bacterial biofilm morphology on soft substrates, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Modelling the pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism provides insights into its operating principles and a roadmap for its engineering into crops, 2022, Nature Plants
  • Proliferating active matter, 2023, Nature Reviews Physics

Wingreen has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011. Earlier, in 2001, they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation for contributions to understanding protein folding and design, including theoretical insights into the selection of protein structures.

Best Publications

  • Time-dependent transport in interacting and noninteracting resonant-tunneling systems

    Antti Pekka Jauho;Ned S. Wingreen;Yigal Meir

  • Diet-induced extinctions in the gut microbiota compound over generations

    Erica D. Sonnenburg;Samuel A. Smits;Mikhail Tikhonov;Steven K. Higginbottom

  • The Small RNA Chaperone Hfq and Multiple Small RNAs Control Quorum Sensing in Vibrio harveyi and Vibrio cholerae

    Derrick H. Lenz;Kenny C. Mok;Brendan N. Lilley;Rahul V. Kulkarni

  • Transport through a strongly interacting electron system: Theory of periodic conductance oscillations.

    Yigal Meir;Ned S. Wingreen;Patrick A. Lee

  • Emergence of preferred structures in a simple model of protein folding

    Hao Li;Robert Helling;Chao Tang;Ned S. Wingreen

  • The Mechanical World of Bacteria

    Alexandre Persat;Carey D. Nadell;Minyoung Kevin Kim;Francois Ingremeau

  • Liquid Nuclear Condensates Mechanically Sense and Restructure the Genome.

    Yongdae Shin;Yongdae Shin;Yi Che Chang;Daniel S.W. Lee;Joel Berry

  • Responding to Chemical Gradients: Bacterial Chemotaxis

    Victor Sourjik;Ned S Wingreen

  • Low-temperature fate of the 0.7 structure in a point contact: a Kondo-like correlated state in an open system.

    S. M. Cronenwett;H. J. Lynch;D. Goldhaber-Gordon;L. P. Kouwenhoven;L. P. Kouwenhoven

  • The bacterial actin MreB rotates, and rotation depends on cell-wall assembly

    Sven van Teeffelen;Siyuan Wang;Leon Furchtgott;Leon Furchtgott;Kerwyn Casey Huang

  • Time-dependent transport through a mesoscopic structure.

    Ned S. Wingreen;Antti-Pekka Jauho;Yigal Meir

  • Enzyme clustering accelerates processing of intermediates through metabolic channeling

    Michele Castellana;Maxwell Z Wilson;Yifan Xu;Preeti Joshi

  • Solutions to the public goods dilemma in bacterial biofilms

    Knut Drescher;Carey D. Nadell;Howard A. Stone;Ned S. Wingreen

  • Cell shape and cell-wall organization in Gram-negative bacteria

    Kerwyn Casey Huang;Ranjan Mukhopadhyay;Bingni Wen;Zemer Gitai

  • Self-organization of the Escherichia coli chemotaxis network imaged with super-resolution light microscopy.

    Derek Greenfield;Ann L. McEvoy;Hari Shroff;Gavin E. Crooks

  • Vibrio harveyi quorum sensing: a coincidence detector for two autoinducers controls gene expression

    Kenny C. Mok;Ned S. Wingreen;Bonnie L. Bassler

  • The Eukaryotic CO2-Concentrating Organelle Is Liquid-like and Exhibits Dynamic Reorganization

    Elizabeth S. Freeman Rosenzweig;Elizabeth S. Freeman Rosenzweig;Bin Xu;Luis Kuhn Cuellar;Antonio Martinez-Sanchez

  • Dynamic structures in Escherichia coli: Spontaneous formation of MinE rings and MinD polar zones

    Kerwyn Casey Huang;Yigal Meir;Ned S. Wingreen

  • Self-Organization of the Escherichia Coli Chemotaxis Network Imaged with Super-Resolution Light Microscopy

    Ann McEvoy;Derek Greenfield;Hari Shroff;Gavin E. Crooks

  • Physical solutions to the public goods dilemma in bacterial biofilms

    Knut Drescher;Carey Nadell;Howard Stone;Ned Wingreen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bonnie L. Bassler
Bonnie L. Bassler Princeton University
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Kerwyn Casey Huang
Kerwyn Casey Huang Stanford University
Zemer Gitai
Zemer Gitai Princeton University
Victor Sourjik
Victor Sourjik Max Planck Society
Knut Drescher
Knut Drescher Max Planck Society
Clifford P. Brangwynne
Clifford P. Brangwynne Princeton University
Simon A. Levin
Simon A. Levin Princeton University
Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Joshua D. Rabinowitz Princeton University

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